As a transfer, back to swimming from the "semi" sport of golf, I still have a strong desire to read instructional information. Whether it be in a book, magazine, or an article there is always a finepoint to be gleaned to improve ones golf game. And the quantity of books on golf...well need I go on?
Fast forward to swimming. A couple of books with out-of-date stroke descriptions and graphics made of ill formed stick figures. What's going on? I can find a 60 frame sequence of Tiger's golf swing, from a couple of angles, but it appears that all world class swimmers are camera shy. Why? Money? Not wanting to share secrets? Camera shortage?
Little stroke snipits (video loops) on the internet are not enough. Where is the detail? If the experts of our sport spend hours in a tank figuring out their hydrodynamics surely someone has take a Polaroid or two!?! (and is willing to share)
From what I have been able to find, nobody has published a quality Swimming book since Doc Counsilman. Does anyone have any reading suggestions? With real detail?
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Val, thanks for the kind words. However, most of my knowledge about swimming is simply a result of distilling info from a whole bunch of other sources, stirring them briskly in my mind, then spewing them out again to see what results. :)
BTW, I've seen a couple references to "stick figures" in this thread. Which book has stick figures? I've used some in my articles because that's the upper limit of my artistic ability, but I don't recall any books that use them (and I thought I'd read them all).
Val, thanks for the kind words. However, most of my knowledge about swimming is simply a result of distilling info from a whole bunch of other sources, stirring them briskly in my mind, then spewing them out again to see what results. :)
BTW, I've seen a couple references to "stick figures" in this thread. Which book has stick figures? I've used some in my articles because that's the upper limit of my artistic ability, but I don't recall any books that use them (and I thought I'd read them all).
